Product Overview
PlanChest seamlessly integrates the essential functions of contact management and document management systems with the addition of many construction-specific features. Whether you want to record your marketing contacts, streamline the process of issuing drawings, or manage the endless stream of RFIs, PlanChest is the database for you.
PlanChest combines core business information, such as the companies and contacts with whom you work, with project-specific drawing and document management. Using the powerful built-in security system you can control the core data centrally whilst allowing users the maximum flexibility to manage individual projects.
Contact Management
PlanChest's Project Form Table holds all the basic information about your Projects including number, name, building type, value, contract type, principal in charge, and much, much, more.
PlanChest's Companies Table holds the names, addresses, telephone, fax, e-mail, web addresses, etc. of all the companies with whom you work.
PlanChest's Contacts Table records all the personal details of your contacts. With PlanChest's extra 'Outlook' module you can export your contact information to a Microsoft Outlook Category for synchronisation with your PDA.
PlanChest seemlessly integrates all this information into a Project Directory for every project. Change information in just one place and all your records are automatically updated.
PlanChest is fully integrated with QAS Systems Quick Address software to enable checks against an industry-standard national address database.
Document Management
Record all the Drawings produced by all the Companies working on your Projects.
Issue your drawings and the drawings of others.
Display issue information as a simple list or as a Drawing Register.
Record and monitor the receipt, checking, and return of Sub-Contractor's Drawings.
Assign Drawings to Contract Packages and control Package Issues.
Use PlanChest's powerful database design to report on "who-has-had-what-and-when".
Planchest is fully integrated with Arup's Columbus document management system, reading and writing Columbus data to further streamline the process of recording issue and receipt information on projects.
Schedules + Workflow
PlanChest's tried-and-tested standard formats take the tedium out of Doors, Finishes, and Ironmongery Schedules.
Record and monitor the RFIs you receive with Planchest's Project Actions In schedule and fight back with the Project Actions Out Schedule.